By Bob Gardinier

Updated 9:05 pm, Tuesday, September 10, 2013

One person was killed and two Taconic Hills high school students were injured in a head-on crash Tuesday morning on Route 23 not far from the school.

Columbia County Sheriff deputies said they responded to a report of an accident at about 8 a.m. near the intersection with Bloody Hill Road and found a small sedan had collided with a Jeep Cherokee.

The driver of the sedan died in the crash, and the two students, a 17-year-old and 15-year-old in the SUV, were taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, deputies said.

On the school's website, the superintendent said the students were on their way to school when the accident happened.

Route 23 between Route 11 and 11A was closed for several hours so authorities could gather clues and clean up the wreckage.

The identities of the victims and information on the cause of the crash have yet to be released.